For my AmRev project I wanted to study women’s roles in the revolution and how women changed over the war. At first it was hard to find resources to use because I was studying a topic most people weren’t. I just started to search for things on google and see what I found. Well, I can safely say that the chunk of information that pops up on the top of the google page is not the most reliable thing to use. After finding that google is not the most reliable thing to use I decided to go broad and just search for women’s roles in the American Revolution. I have to say, that went pretty well. I found a bunch of resources that led me to really planning out how I wanted to organize my notes. Anahita also introduced me to a really good website called Museum of the American Revolution, that website really helped me figure everything out when I was kind of lost. Then to help me even more Mrs. Rago made a document with everybody’s focus and some websites that I might want to look at, and I just want to say thank you Mrs. Rago and Mrs. O’ Neill for all of this help on my project so far. The only thing I regret doing is focusing too much on the clothing, and women at home rather than studying more specific women who fought in the war, If I could have gone back I would have probably started with studying specific women such as Abigail Adams, or Martha Washington, but I didn’t get into that until much later in the process. I really like my topic because I wanted to think out of the box so I did something to help with my capstone and that was interesting to me. I felt very passionate about my gender and I wanted to research what my life as being female would be like if I had lived in the revolutionary period. I think this topic was a good one because it also challenged me, and if you know me, I love a good challenge. I learned about women’s jobs in general but I wanted to learn more about women who actually experienced that, and tell their story. I felt that telling their story would kind of be remembering them and recognizing all of those incredible acts they did for our country. My topic is all about women’s jobs and all of the hard work they did to prove that they did not get as much recognition as they should have, and that the American Revolution was kind of a starting point for them fighting for their recognition and their legal rights. As we are moving into the scripting process and memorizing lines I honestly feel a bit nervous. I only feel this way because when we did our weather ignites it was hard for me to memorize those 30 seconds of speaking at first so I can’t imagine how this will be. Otherwise, I am so excited and I just want to keep my mindset positive, and hope for the best.